Remember that one day when you could wake up without an alarm? When you would get your favorite bowl of cereal and sit between the hours of 8 and 12? This is a blog dedicated to the greatest time of our childhood: Saturday mornings. The television programs you watched, the memories attached to them, and maybe introducing you to something you didn't realize existed. Updated every weekend.

Ever wondered what The Fugitivewould
be like if it starred an animal—say, a dog? Well, wonder no more!

Corey training Joe.

Created by Richard H. Landau, the show
centered on a German Shepherd named Joe (Heinrich, the pet of producer William D’Angelo) who was being
trained by army Sargent William Corey (Arch Whiting). However, one day Joe was
framed for attacking Corey; the punishment for which was for him to be
euthanized. Joe escaped, and the army put a $200 bounty on his head. Joe traveled
the country, trying to keep ahead of the army and the various bounty hunters
looking to collect the reward, while also helping those in need he encountered
along the way. Corey also gave his own pursuit, believing Joe to be innocent
and wanting to find him before the army did.

The show was renewed for a second season. Whiting
left the show; his character being written out as having to return to active
duty after being unable to find Joe. In his place was hiker Josh McCoy (Chad States)
who became Joe’s traveling companion. While Joe would continue to help those he
encountered, Josh would end up often becoming involved in the plots by taking
jobs in the places where something would go down; be it driving a car targeted
by thieves or slinging hash in a joint invaded by bank robbers. While the show
was not renewed for a third season, it remained on the network’s schedule until
the fall of 1976.

Stills from the episode “Little Big Bear
Hunter” were turned into a ViewMaster set
in 1974.